Pengaruh Dukungan Keluarga Dalam Meningkatkan Perilaku Adaptif Remaja Pubertas

The period of puberty is a critical period for adolescents. The consequence of changing puberty is often arise a dis-adaptif behaviour such as a shirker, protester, gang fighter. Family as the primary environment teenager plays an important role in shaping adolescent behavior. The research objective was to identify the influence of family support for adaptive behavior of adolescent puberty. Quasi-experimental design approach without pre-posttest control group design was applied. Respondents was selected by purposive sampling in Baturaden. Adaptive behavior that increased from 60% to 97% after optimization family support. Difficulties of parents in providing family support when directed to learn, to establish open communication, and teenagers emotional. There is the influence of family support optimization significantly to the increase of adaptive behavior adolescents with p value of 0.001. Parents should always increase their knowledge to implement family support to teenagers